Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!ames!uhccux!galileo!ressler From: ressler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Mike "IR" Ressler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: 256K SIMMs with 1M SIMMs? Message-ID: <13431@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Date: 12 Jun 91 20:18:08 GMT References: <17218@helios.TAMU.EDU> Sender: news@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Distribution: usa Organization: UH IfA and NASA Infrared Telescope Facility Lines: 21 In article goldberg@iastate.edu (Adam Goldberg) writes: >In <17218@helios.TAMU.EDU> sam4628@rigel.tamu.edu (MCCLUNEY, STEVEN ALEXANDER) writes: > >>I have a computer (well, a Golstar GT316 at any rate) with two 1 MB SIMMs >>in it. I also have several 256K SIMMs available. Can both be used in the >>same computer at the same time? If it makes any difference, the computer >>is a 16 MHz 386SX. Thanks in advance (or in retreat, for that matter...) [stuff deleted] >The boards I've heard of that >allow you to do this are high-end 386 or 486 machines, but again, they're >designed for 1M/4M not 256k/1M. My "high end" 386 (33MHz) takes 256K and 1M - but not 4M, according to the motherboard docs. I guess it really depends on what the board maker felt like doing at the time ... -- Mike Ressler - Infrared Photon Jockey ressler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu Some people like music they can brush their teeth to in the morning. Me? I like music I can brush my teeth with ...